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I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

March 18, 2011

Unexpected Visitors


We left Boracay on Friday, Mar 4 for our trip to Port Bonbonon on the south of the island of Negros.  This trip took us past the island of Panay and we made 3 stops before arriving at Port Bonbonon on Monday, Mar 7.
The first day out we anchored by a little island halfway down the west of Panay.  We got anchored about 4pm and since we have not had lunch, Pauline got started on getting dinner ready.  Halfway through preparations, Mark said that we had visitors.  4 bankas (boats) with 2 teenage boys in each had arrived and one of them who spoke passable English was trying to chat with Mark.  Anyways, they wanted to jump off the bow of our boat into the water.  Mark said ok but only 2 at a time.  Soon off into the water the boys jumped, leaving one boy on the bankas to hover around.  They came in 2s, clambered up the swim ladder, ran to the bow and jumped off into the water.  They swam back to their respective bankas and the other boys jumped into the water and the whole process was repeated over and over again for about an hour.  It was nice to see that the boys were having a grand old time.  When the sun was setting, they all got back on their bankas and thanked us over and over again.  The one who spoke passable English told us that we are very nice and generous for allowing them onto our boat and before leaving said, God bless you and they left as suddenly as them came, back to their little village.  We said to each other later over dinner that they probably had something to talk about for a while with their friends.  It was nice to know that we have helped make the day for some kids.
boys jumping off the bow
boys in their bankas
boys having fun








We left the next day and went south, anchored in a bay south of Panay for one night and in a bay in Asia Bay, west of Negros for another night.
dolphins came to play
When we left Asia Bay in the morning, the wind was very light and we had our main up and were motoring south toward Port Bonbonon.  It was a beautiful day, light wind, sunshine.  We noticed fish thrashing towards our portside and thought it was tuna.  Then we realized it was dolphins and before long they were alongside and playing with our bow wake.  We went forward and watched them.  They left after a couple of minutes.  We then realized in our excitement, we had forgotten our camera.  We took it out and said perhaps the next time, never expecting a next time.  Well, we saw dolphins again but this time they were busy feeding and didn’t come to play.  We were disappointed and had almost given up on seeing more when, we saw some, again to our portside.  These came over to play with our bow wake and Pauline ran forward and started taking pictures.  They were playing for a few minutes and then one of the dolphin made some dolphin noises and off they went.  It was really nice to see these creatures and they really made our day.
 





There was a last little unexpected visitor.  This time it was a little sparrow.  It flew onto the boat, looking really tired.  When it arrived, we were about 10 miles offshore.  It got up close and personal with us for a while.  We put out some water and sunflower seeds but never saw it again.  Pauline thought she killed it because she didn’t bring out the water when it first arrived.  It must have flown off when we got closer to the island.
We anticipated the trip down to Port Bonbonon to be mundane and uneventful but we had these unexpected visitors and it was really nice.  So who says life is boring?  It is always full of surprises.

2 comments:

  1. I think the dolphins were jealous of the kids diving off the bow and wanted to have their own fun.

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  2. I think the kids would have been more jelous of the dolphins. They wanted to swim all the time.

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